Arco/BORAX Mobile Substation [31]

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Title Arco/BORAX Mobile Substation [31]
Photo Number P0206add2n01_15_014 trans
Description Scan of a transparency of "Mr. Clarence W. Byrne, local agent for Utah Power and Light Company, at Arco substation switch was thrown to give Arco electricity from nuclear power"
Date 1955-07-17
Textual Date July 17, 1955
Keywords Rocky Mountain Power; Idaho; Arco; Borax; Personnel
Subject Boiling water reactors--Butte County--Idaho--Photographs; Argonne National Laboratory-West--Photographs; Idaho National Laboratory--Photographs
Spatial Coverage Idaho National Laboratory; Butte County (Idaho)
Latitude 43.51798
Longitude -113.00946
Additional Information Utah Power & Light Company, with a mobile substation, participated in the early experiments at the National Reactor Testing Station (today the Idaho National Laboratory). On December 20, 1951, the Experimental Breeder Reactor-1 produced the first electricity from a nuclear reaction. On July 17, 1955, the BORAX-III reactor provided electric lighting to the nearby town of Argo--the first community in the world ever to be lit by electricity generated by nuclear power.
Collection Number and Name P0206 Rocky Mountain Power Company Photograph Collection
Collection Name Rocky Mountain Power Company
Rights
Type Image
Finding Aid https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv479461
Digitization Specifications Digital image produced on Epson Perfection V700 Photo scanner, RGB, at 2000dpi. Archival file is uncompressed TIFF.
ARK ark:/87278/s68s5fnq
Setname uum_map
ID 985594
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68s5fnq
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